"angie1971 via AviationKB.com" u35326@uwe wrote:

YES! I suffer now from serious lung phlem,choking me out sometimes. I
appologize for the lack of urgency on my part of not replying to you more
quickly.I still am not sure about the long term effects of my inhalation, but
I will say this, I sure never suffered from what I have to deal with now!
Bayliner Marine here in Roseburg, Oregon is where I was working when this
happened, and they aren't and still haven't, helped me out AT ALL with any of
this. No info or med or anything! I have a huge amount of links though, that
you might find usefull, as did I. That's how I ended here with all you very
helpful and real people.
In fact if you do want them leet me know and I will email them to you. But
they are all on HALON. Thank You, by he way for your contacting me on this.
I still don't really know alot about HALON gas. I still can't get any info
from the sites that handle this kind of stuff. Really. They don't even know
about it some of the times I contact them. Funny HuH? Well I will check my
email more often and try to get back to you more quickly. Thanks so much for
your question. Did you suffer any long term effects from the propane?
Normally the two are never combined, as far as I've learned, but the HALON is
in it's own class of gases I guess.
Oh yeah, by the way, propane is very apt to do that, what it did to you.
Very common, heard of a guy that lost his entire hand due to a release of
propane from filling a tank. Scary.
talk later. Angie B.

I'm thinking that the problem very likely isn't that the gas your
lungs were abused with, but the sheer pressure and maybe temperature
of it. I used to scuba dive, and we were drilled relentlessly on
proper technique to come to the surface. Since there's a one
atmosphere change in pressure every 33 feet or so, it's really quite
easy to rupture tissue in your lungs ascending without exhaling. My
SCUBA instructor claimed that you can injure / kill yourself in
relatively shallow water (like a swimming pool) if you take a really
deep breath and surface quickly.

From the description of the incident, it's hard to imagine you didn't
end up with some pretty serious pressurization in your lungs, and if
so, that would have to have ruptured some of the air sacs and other
various bits. You wouldn't have the typical nitrogen narcosis
associated with a diving incident since the there isn't any nitrogen
in a halon bottle (an assumption, however).

You might look up a doctor who's been schooled in treating divers and
see if there's anything they can add.

Mark "lobster hunter" Hickey